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I hope you've all been having a good time since the new launch. I've been busy with non-YTMND stuff but I've been trying to keep an eye on my flock. The launch included quite a few server migrations which I think I can safely say went well at this point.

Before I go further, I wanted to mention Kiva again and remind everyone that we've extended the offer to match Kiva loans with YTMND sponsorship dollars indefinitely, so if you'd like to do something charitable and highlight your favorite YTMNDs at the same time, Kiva micro-loans are a great way to do it. The YTMND Kiva team has lent an impressive $27,075 for only having 18 members. If you haven't yet, join Kiva, join the Kiva team and do something decent for once.

Minor dev updates follow.

I'll be addressing a couple items over the next week when I have time from the bug tracker, mainly the showstoppers with Internet Explorer and cleaning up the chat code. After that, I am also going to be improving the mod panels and making a simple contest CMS to allow select users and moderators to create contests, since I'm terrible at updating them.

Another server migration needs to happen to get the search indexing up-to-the-minute, but I'm not sure when that will get done. Over the next couple months I want to work on the "front-page time machine" feature to try and better highlight older content. If you have any ideas for it, please add them. I think the sites section is lacking majorly, and there needs to be a better way in place to see the massive archive of content on YTMND.

hmmm. what about a moderator's favorites section or some kind of Max's section? I know some profess to have issues with the moderation here and sometimes with you as well, but I'm just thinking that some kind of manually picked out bunch of sites might have value for those less familiar with what some old hits might be. maybe a contest winner gets to pick out what sites go in the section for a week. or maybe each week, a randomly generated group of a few hundred or so sites are put aside, and the userbase votes for which ten get on the front page for a week. dunno, i'm just spitballin ways here to both interest new users while trading off the massive amount of (justifiable?) sentimentality we regulars seem to have for ytmnd "back in the day."

I've suggested a "Featured Sites" style box many times. Always adding "or have some users you trust do it", to the suggestion that you simply pick quality sites each week to feature regardless of rating. Although now I'd change it from "users you trust" to "anyone you can find willing to view every recently created site". Something like that would really take the sting out of alt abuse and the eVenge from circle jerks.

Funny or Die does this. They have community ratings but don't rely on them when it comes to what to feature on their front page - because then they'd just have a small group of intolerable gaylords who just force each others shitty content there every day and the site would die.

::cough::

Anyway, I don't see how contests change anything. Certain users will still be able to post unfunny, no-effort meme-generator sites and get higher ratings than other certain users who make the best sites whether it's part of a contest or not.When that dink used to do that tournament DaveTheRave would use like a dozen alts on each of his entries. So because there was a contest you had DaveTheRave sites that weren't good enough to be featured on the front page being featured on the front page. How exactly did that improve content? Didn't it technically and quite literally make the featured content worse?

I'm not really asking. You've explained to me how little you care. Just having some fun.

i'll say it yet again. in the "hanukkah/chanukah" theme round, [site chanukah:site] was funnier than your site featuring a "jews did 9/11"-esque still image with some led zeppelin instrumental jam and your off-key singing of a lyric that went: [i]dirty little jewsdirty little jewsdirty little jewskill all the jews[/i]so you lost.

out of the hundred-plus contestants in three different tournaments, you're the only one who's gotten - and remained - so upset. it's been almost [b]three years[/b]. get the fuck over it, uncle ummy.

Sorry fag, I'm not upset. Unlike you my online identity isn't based entirely on expressing rage at one person who gave my troll YTMNDs ratings I didn't like.

And the little boy here who also replied, likewise with the all consuming rage steaming from getting scores he didn't like on his horrible sites factoring into every aspect of his use of YTMND (See Also: Life)

This simply underscores my assertion that there [i]needs[/i] to be a way to feature content that doesn't involve people like you two. But because there are two (and many more) of you who share this rage you can spend the rest of your life telling each other you're right and that you sick burned me because that's good internetting and actually has meaning beyond your own illusions.

Yeah not me but I love how you linked to the comment page and yet also include a screenshot of said same page... for no apparent reason.

By evidence you simply meant because you say so?Our legal system took a terrible blow when you opted for a career in the restaurant delivery game rather than being the trial lawyer you so clearly were born to be.

I actually think it's someone pretending to be Umfuld, someone who wants people to think it's Umfuld. Those accounts were around before Tile, Nothingman, etc. were deleted so I would think that these accounts would have met the same fate had they really been his alts.

Now just for fun here's an incomplete list of users I've caught cheating with alts who not only does pde10 never criticize but pretty much automatically 5s every site they post regardless of content or how much they cheat:

Now, just for fun, I'd like to see Umfuld reveal the alts that these users have cheated with. I'm aware that some of these guys have used alts in the past, but some of those names are new to me. Tell me the alts used by Harbltron, eightbitprodigy, FatHistorian, Cliffington88, PoHandle, Locke5, and TheeBatman TO CHEAT.

I don't condone any of the alt abuse that some of these others may have done in the past. They learned their lesson when some of their accounts were deleted and they never did it again. You had your core group of alts in 2008 that were later deleted after you were comment-banned. I don't know how much abuse you did with them, but Cumion and Scumion must have been locked and deleted for a reason. You came back and made a whole new army, doing the same thing -- using each and every one of them to vote. Then you just made it obvious by logging into every account to downvote my sites and anyone who openly called you out while shouting to max "I don't care anymore, I'm going to alt-bomb anyone who mentions me in a comment!" So yeah, there's a reason I have fun criticizing you for that shit. You were always playing the imaginary role of YTMND Police, altering your vote so the site receives the overall vote you think it deserves, calling people out for using alts, etc. Yet you turn around and do the same fucking thing. It's like a cop busting some dude for drugs, confiscating it, and turning around to smoke it himself.

This is typical Umfuld too, complaining about the things I like. Right now, if I were to go to these users' profiles and 5 at least one of each of their sites, Umfuld would be right behind me to vote 1, with the reason being that my vote "wasn't real."

If you want to complain about circle jerking, bitch about every single person who ever voted 5 on a site containing the symbol "#?!"

More typical Umfuld...I'm actually defending him here, saying that JenniferAniston and AngelinaJolie probably aren't his accounts, but I'm pde10 so he doesn't want my help. So he tries to take a shit on me.

Common features of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) include excessive, often persistent anger, frequent temper tantrums or angry outbursts, and disregard for authority. Children and adolescents with this disorder often annoy others on purpose, blame others for their mistakes, and are easily annoyed. In addition, these young people may appear resentful of others and when someone does something they don't like they often take revenge on them.

"[i]these young people may appear resentful of others and when someone does something they don't like they often take revenge on them[/i]"

You mean like;

- Making an account solely for the purpose of making disparaging YTMNDs about the one person you can't whore 5s out of?- Revenge downvoting- Checking someone's profile several times a day to find and minus every comment they make- Replying to every comment someone makes with lame attempts to insult/harass them- Making and upvoting literally 100s of YTMNDs about someone because you didn't like what they voted on your site despite having to know that this practice has had as much to do with the site dying than anything else- Posting what you believe to be someone's name and address again because you didn't like the vote they cast on your YTMND

You don't think every comment in this string other than my own stems from childish resentment? Are you really that confused son or are you just that stupid? Are you from down South by any chance?

Look at the original ytmnd and tell me you think max added the zooming text for its "aesthetic appeal". If you don't think zooming text is funny, then why the fuss about changing it? There's no reason to have it at all! Again, this is not supposed to be a place for your art-faggery.

If you were to explain your reasoning, you would be listing premises and a conclusion. To you, you would be right, and that would be your system of logic.

Max added zooming text to the original ytmnd because it was a good idea to have the text of the quote and name of the site on the site itself. It wouldn't have been as good just to have the picture and sound. Plus, the big zooming text of the url flying towards the viewer highlights the absurdity of it being a website of its own. Zooming text is also a really good way to overlay text on any picture and still make it noticeable.

I don't have time for your childish argumentative bullshit, especially when you make no sense, so I'll just ask you: Do you think it would be better for the default style to be that the zooming text is centered on the screen?

Well, after the second time, it is now about whether or not [user woman:profile] here knows how to spell the word "whether" and, as far as that goes, the word "weather" and whether or not he would know the difference between the two (the one representing the outdoor climate and the one that is used in the context in which he is using the spelling "w-e-t-h-e-r"). Also, zooming text is fucking classic and I agree with [user ScndPistonHonda:profile].

Scndpistonhonda, default style? There should be only one style. The zooming text should be aligned from the top left as it always has been. You say ytmnds don't look as good as they used to. They didn't change. What changed is, you got a new high-rez monitor. So either go back to your old monitor, or push the zoom-in button.

Pde10, you're a slut. If you think the zooming text is "classic" then you'd be agreeing with me. I can't believe a ytmnd expert such as yourself wouldn't notice how many classic sites would be destroyed by this. omgameteor.ytmnd.com

I got lost in your confusingly contracting comments about how there's no reason to have it at all, but then again I just skimmed it quickly and didn't really give a shit what you, a stupid ass who once spammed excellent sites off the front page with your 36,000 sites in one evening, had to say about your ideal YTMND. Plus, I just wanted to bring up the fact that woman can't spell the word "whether" because I'm an ass like that.

Wow Max, thanks for the news! I'm looking forward for any new development.Now that I remember, I was thinking about making individual YTMNDs with links to some interesting sites (like a "best of the week"), not just recent sites, but also old stuff that somehow never got the attention (I think) it deserves. I had that idea a few months ago but summer and other crap got in the way.

Hrmph. Red Sox got eliminated in last game of regular season after an epic Sept. collapse almost half an hour ago and none of my O.Q.s have made a schadenfreudic site about it yet. Maybe YTMND really is dead

Not necessarily - but dctownes' site is/was certainly worthy of the rating. I have noticed a general of sites being rated lower than usual, and I have definitely seen good sites miss the U&C because of what appeared to be an unusually high amount of early downvotes.

I guess I was really asking, "Has there been some mass downvoting happening lately?"

Not really Gordo. But like the man said; This too shall pass. Just keep shitting on the place and doing nothing to help like viewing and honestly rating all the sites on recently created every time you visit, maybe even try to troll the people who actually do that - teach them a lesson, and then complain about the results. Because that seems like a good plan.

Anyway, I think high effort and quality edits deserve consideration when rating sites. I may not like the site overall, but I will reward effort and skill because I value those qualities in a site. So you get bumped from a 2 to a 3 or a 3 to a 4 if I think the edits are worth it. I know I'm not the only one who uses this kind of metric when rating sites.

Your McDonald's floor analogy is cute but misses the point entirely. All you're doing is saying "I don't give a fuck how much time or effort you put into the edits. I don't factor that into my evaluations." Good for you. I would reply, "Well, McDonald's floors may never suit your fancy. Fair enough. I still tend to think better of the floor that's been mopped for 100 hours."

First world problem: I have two sites that I started but did not finish right away so they are not relevant anymore. Max, how can you assure me that I will be timely the next time I come up with dumb ideas?

Any of you long time site members can take a stab at answering this please:

Ive been trying to make a site for the last couple of days and every time I try to upload my content, using any of the allowed file formats, file size small or large.. I instantly get this pop up message once I select the file from my pc:

There was an error with your upload. This is what the server said about your dumb file: No valid files uploaded #2

Then another window pops up that says: "dong" lol..

doesnt matter what I try to upload. Any ol' jpg or even a gif, ytmnd doesnt even try processing it. Just soon as I select my file these messages appear. Any browser, and I have java enabled and have created many sites on ytmnd over the years.

Here's what's "SUP!" I'm going to 5 every site that you nutjobs post on YTMND. You post it, I 5 it. This is my way of saying "SUP" to everyone that continues to post sites and contribute to my favorite place on the internet. I'M CALLING IT "SUPVOTING!!!"

If that SOPA/PIPA shit passes, this place is fucked. We might as well live it up while we can! Maybe a guaranteed 5 will inspire some of you to entertain us with a site. You guys should post so much stuff that I have trouble keeping up with my SUPVOTES.

May all of us allow it to be therefore the textual content is actually focused as well as proportionally big regardless of the actual display dimension? Lots of websites possess dropped visual attractiveness since the textual content does not appear exactly the same.

Well guys, my SUPVOTING campaign is officially over. Congress has postponed SOPA/PIPA until they can come to a consensus on better legislation. WE DID IT!

Also, viewing and 5ing every site totally killed my site creating mojo. I haven't been on here for 2 weeks because the whole experience left me emotionally scarred. I actually had feelings of dread about coming on here, and as Sonic would say, "THAT'S NO GOOD!"

So now it's back to only voting 5 on the good stuff. I hope everyone enjoyed their stars.

Hey max,ytmnd.com/chat doesn't work. Nor does ytmnd.com/spy chat. Gabbly is dead. I miss being able to chat with my YTMND buds. Also, I think the lack of chat is contributing to the dwindling activity on your website. Could you please fix the chat? If not, can we go back to Meebo?

Oops. I guess chat does work, it just took a while to load. I hung out for a bit, but nobody else was in there. I liked how Meebo would automatically put me into chat when I would lurk on spy. Maybe you could make logging onto ytmnd.com/chat happen by default?

Space-- no planet, no surrounding landscape, no world underfoot. Only the stars in the velvet night, and hanging against them a great red sun that was beating like a heart. Huge and tenuous at one moment, it would slowly shrink, brightening at the same time as if new fuel was being fed to its internal fires. It would climb the spectrum and hover at the edge of yellow, and cool, becoming once more a ragged, flame-red cloud...

It might have been Earth. A white sun hung in a blue sky flecked with clouds, which were racing before a storm. A hill sloped gently down to an ocean torn into spray by the ravening wind. Yet nothing moved: the scene was frozen as if glimpsed in a flash of lightning. And far, far away on the horizon was something that was not of Earth--a line of misty columns, tapering slightly as they soared out of the sea and lost themselves among the clouds. They were spaced with perfect precision along the rim of the planet--too huge to be artificial, yet too regular to be natural.

The planet was absolutely flat. Its enormous gravity had long ago crushed into one uniform level the mountains of its fiery youth-mountains whose mightiest peaks had never exceeded a few meters in height. Yet there was life here, for the surface was covered with a myriad geometrical patterns that crawled and moved and changed their color. It was a world of two dimensions, inhabited by beings who could be no more than a fraction of a centimeter in thickness. And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultra-violet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life. For millions of kilometers around extended great veils of gas and dust, fluorescing in countless colors as the blasts of ultra-violet tore through them. It was a star against which Earth's pale sun would have been as feeble as a glow-worm at noon.

It was a world that could never know the meaning of night and day, of years or seasons. Six colored suns shared its sky, so that there came only a change in light, never darkness. Through the clash and tug of conflicting gravitational fields, the plane traveled along the loops and curves of its inconceivably complex orbit, never retracing the same path. Every moment was unique: the configuration which the six suns now held in the heavens would not repeat itself this side of eternity. And even here there was life. Though the planet might be scorched by the central fires in one age, and frozen in the outer reaches in another, it was yet the home of intelligence. The great, many-faceted crystals stood grouped in intricate geometrical patterns, motionless in the eras of cold, growing slowly along the veins of mineral when the world was warm again. No matter if it took a thousand years for them to complete a thought. The universe was still young, and time stretched endlessly before them...

Cross refrence on Google and found a interesting Japanese adult site, not really into Japanese adult movies, but this site, the design the girls. I can only say WOW!! Tons of movies and porn star profile, worth a look. http://en.japorndl.com/

[code]I cross-referenced on Google and found an interesting Japanese adult site. Not really into Japanese adult movies, but this site...the design, the girls...all I can say is "Wow!" Tons of movies and porn star profiles! It's worth a look.

Visit http://en.japorndl.com.[/code]

Sometimes it's all about presentation. Also, I'm checking to see if these font commands still work.

I am done using alts seriously, I have not 1 alt registered to my IP or anyway on the net, I just want max to know YTMND user Crashman-alpha and ImmaAless are not my alts, they have logged into my YTMND account because they helped me repost my sites quicker, both of those users I know in Real world, besides that I don't have 1 alt, and max actually deleted my old friends ytmnd account thinking it was my alt because I had logged into it, anyway I actually learned my lesson not to use alts, and I kinda deserved what I got